Hey, younger readers, did you know that in the 1970s nobody wore seat belts? It’s true. If you belted up, the driver would give you the stink-eye and say, “Whatsa matter? You don’t trust my driving?”

A few years ago it began to be widely publicized that most doctors and nurses weren’t taking the time to wash their hands. This was before the ubiquity of hand sanitizers. Doctors were picking up infections from Patient A and passing them to Patients B-Z, some of whom died of these infections. Whoopsie! Hey, Kamala Harris, do you think it’s a good idea for doctors to take common-sense preventative measures not to spread disease? Or are you more worried that it wasn’t worth the risk of making doctors feel bad about themselves to point out that they were killing some of their patients and increasing the risk to themselves?

As David noted earlier today, it’s absolutely bizarre that Senator Harris is pushing back against Neomi Rao’s common-sense idea that young women shouldn’t get massively drunk. This is somehow “blaming the victim.” Is telling drivers to buckle their seatbelts seatbelt-shaming? Is telling doctors to wash their hands Purell-shaming?

If you care about campus rape culture, you should care about its predicate, which is getting-stinking-drunk culture. There should be a nationwide public-service campaign to advise young women in particular not to binge-drink, something comparable to the highly successful Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaign which led the way to a huge change in public perceptions about the acceptability of drunk driving. Young male predators, of course, want young women to get drunk and/or high. Don’t give them what they want.